The Parasite With a new Introduction by Cary Wolfe

Using all three meanings of the word in French: a biological parasite, a social parasite, and static or noise, Serres (history of science, the Sorbonne) takes the parasite as a model of human interactions in the realms of logic, technology, work, the economy, and society. He does not provide an index. Le Parasite was published by Grasset and Fasque